Battlefield 4 killed my GPU (GTX 560 ti) because of the one indoor snow/mountain map (Locker?). It was just 50 billion grenades, rpgs and eods bots all being spammed. Saw the block artifacts and that was it.
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PC gamers, which games pushed your PC to its brink, GPU and CPU wise.
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Flight Simulator by far. It's the only that I have to spend a lot of time in the settings to make it run smoothly.
I never had a high end PC, so gaming in the highest rez possible with max settings was never a thing.
But I remember playing Quake 2 (or was it Unreal) and the game performing great, or so I thought (ignorance is bliss..).
Bought a Voodoo Banshee and that was when I first tried the Q2 benchmark with OpenGL. Man those graphics and that framerate!
Only started noticing real issues with framerate on the PS3 gen, though
But I remember playing Quake 2 (or was it Unreal) and the game performing great, or so I thought (ignorance is bliss..).
Bought a Voodoo Banshee and that was when I first tried the Q2 benchmark with OpenGL. Man those graphics and that framerate!
Only started noticing real issues with framerate on the PS3 gen, though
Definitely. I remember running this at, like, 10 or so frames per second on a Geforce 3 in 2002.
Growing up with PC in the '90s and early '00s, any time a year passed since you bought your computer it would be outdated because the tech was moving so fast. I remember Doom putting quite a strain on my computer at the time, which I believe was a 386. The same goes for Quake on a 486 (minimum requirements were Pentium, but fuck it), and Doom 3 on my top-of-the-line computer in 2004. Then we have Crysis of course, back on my brand new computer in 2007. That being said, plenty of games in between those releases were maxing out my computer at the time.
The one that bothers me the most is Ghost Recon: Wildlands.
This game is just poorly optimized.
Played it first on my 980Ti and I had to make so many sacrifices to get close to 60, but never really locking it in.
Now with a 2080S, I'm at least playing at 1440p rather than 1080p, but performance is still terrible.
Breakpoint works a lot better, but it's a terrible game in comparison.
Wildlands is probably my favorite coop game of the generation, I still play it today.
This game is just poorly optimized.
Played it first on my 980Ti and I had to make so many sacrifices to get close to 60, but never really locking it in.
Now with a 2080S, I'm at least playing at 1440p rather than 1080p, but performance is still terrible.
Breakpoint works a lot better, but it's a terrible game in comparison.
Wildlands is probably my favorite coop game of the generation, I still play it today.
Recently, Forza Horizon 3. I bought it after it was announced that it was going to be delisted, and then installed its 50+ GB. I wasn't expecting anything amazing from my very humble PC, but definitely a bit better than what I got based on some Youtube videos with hardware that I assumed was similar to mine (GT 1030). Extremely poor framerate, which I think was caused mainly by the CPU (i3 3240). I've been wondering whether I should update the PC or buy a Series S... Most of the PC games I have work well in that setup. FH3 is the newest and most demanding one.
However, that experience doesn't compare with trying to run Quake in my 486 DX4 back in the day. The only way to have a minimally decent framerate was to play it in the smallest screen size possible.
However, that experience doesn't compare with trying to run Quake in my 486 DX4 back in the day. The only way to have a minimally decent framerate was to play it in the smallest screen size possible.
Shiny Entertainments Sacrifice.
Made my Celeron 466Mhz + Voodoo 3 2000 AGP + 128 Mb Ram machine weep.
Minimum required for this game was 300Mhz + 64 Mb Ram. I was sure this was going to run well. Oh boy, with max settings it sure didn`t.
Next year, Max Payne forced me to upgrade.
Made my Celeron 466Mhz + Voodoo 3 2000 AGP + 128 Mb Ram machine weep.
Minimum required for this game was 300Mhz + 64 Mb Ram. I was sure this was going to run well. Oh boy, with max settings it sure didn`t.
Next year, Max Payne forced me to upgrade.
The only game that's sends my 2080 super into the high 70c's. Such a beautiful game. But damn it's demanding
Skyrim is what made me build my first gaming pc, I tried it in my fathers pc after upgrading the ram and had like 8 to 15 FPS
Crysis 3 and Witcher 3 both made me upgrade my entire setup again.
Besides that I can't remember my pc really "struggling" but I haven't been on pc for the most part in about 2 years so I haven't played C2077 or Flight Sim on pc.
Crysis 3 and Witcher 3 both made me upgrade my entire setup again.
Besides that I can't remember my pc really "struggling" but I haven't been on pc for the most part in about 2 years so I haven't played C2077 or Flight Sim on pc.
Tomb Raider 1 really pushed my Monster 3D card back in the day. The original Unreal was quite the test for the time too if I recall.
I'm pleased it's not just me who was shocked that fortnite with rtx and dlss didn't run well. Mind I feel the game doesn't really benefit from rtx (40 fps at 4k on a 2080ti )
Really? With a 6700K and 2070S, I'm still mostly CPU limited at 1600p. Is your GPU actually at 100% utilization or are you just assuming you're not CPU limited since your threads aren't maxed?
Depends. Runs well enough on medium at 1080p, but trying to go higher like 1440p, it struggles.
I try to time my PC build/upgrade to be after the new console generation gets going, when a graphics card comes out which 1) doesn't cost a fortune and 2) can play console ports at max settings without batting an eye. I ended up with a regular 1080 which fulfilled those requirements. Control was the first game where it clearly struggled, and Cyberpunk (though probably for optimization reasons partially?) was even worse. I play a lot of indie stuff which tends to be less demanding, so I'll upgrade in a year or two.
Control and Cyberpunk. Control only because gpu with OC get highest temps. Also Red Dead gives it a workout at 4k. Anything else chews through it.
3080 Strix OC edition. With additional 700 memory 120cc on top of factory oc stable.
Control hits 99% usage same for the others at times.
3080 Strix OC edition. With additional 700 memory 120cc on top of factory oc stable.
Control hits 99% usage same for the others at times.
Outcast's requirements were utterly insane for 1999. 500MHz CPU? 1 GIGABYTE of hard drive space?? At the time our family PC had a 100 MHz CPU with about 1 GB total hard drive space, had to wait another year or so before I could play it.
I have Yakuza Kiwami 2 and Rise of the Tomb Raider. I can't get 1080p60 with High on Kiwami 2, but my bigger frustration is how poor hair looks in the game unless you absolutely max out SSAA. With RoTR the AA options that suit my laptop don't look great, and it's crashed to desktop a couple of times with a D3D error so I've put it aside now. Makes a good benchmarking tool, though.
Yeah, the AA in both of those is really lacking. Lots of subpixel details that resolve in a jagged mess + not great AA :(
Injecting SSAA helps a little with Kiwami 2, but it's still very noisy overall.
For me it was partly due to another BGS game: Morrowind.
I tried to play it, in 2001, on a Pentium 4 pre-built machine (from FutureShop) that had 128MB of Rambus Ram and a nVidia TNT2 Riva 64MB graphics card. I think that card is from 1999 and I got like 4 frames per second in Morrowind with it (weirdly, I specifically remember NVIDIA having a lower case "n" back then...).
Before I ever built a pc, though, I bough the original xbox to play morrowind. Then I built a rig in 2003 or 2004 and played Morrowind all over again.
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The game has aged very well visually today, Nukes still look among the best even today its crazy
With Flight Sim, I feel like my computer struggles during patch install screens and even when simply navigating the main menu.
Yakuza Kiwami 2, Avengers - GTX 1060 3gb
2560x1080 was too much for it. I think I hovered around 25-40 fps after tweaking the settings (combination of medium and high). Last summer I thought how great it would be to have a new gpu so I could play it on high settings at 60+ fps. Bought a 2060 Super and was satisfied with performance in the game... I could also play games like Rise of the Tomb Raider at max settings. Unfortunately, the Super died and it took two months for a replacement from NVidia. It was around that time that the 3000 series was announced. I knew there had been rumors but the talk I had been hearing about the performance gains seemed too good to be true at the time.
While waiting for NVidia to send me another 2060S, I bought into the hype and purchased an Avengers key from someone on here. Avengers was the first time I felt was unplayable on my gpu. Part of it may have been due to how broken the game was at launch, but I also knew the 1060 was showing its age.
edit: wasn't expecting to see so many mentions of Kiwami 2 lol
2560x1080 was too much for it. I think I hovered around 25-40 fps after tweaking the settings (combination of medium and high). Last summer I thought how great it would be to have a new gpu so I could play it on high settings at 60+ fps. Bought a 2060 Super and was satisfied with performance in the game... I could also play games like Rise of the Tomb Raider at max settings. Unfortunately, the Super died and it took two months for a replacement from NVidia. It was around that time that the 3000 series was announced. I knew there had been rumors but the talk I had been hearing about the performance gains seemed too good to be true at the time.
While waiting for NVidia to send me another 2060S, I bought into the hype and purchased an Avengers key from someone on here. Avengers was the first time I felt was unplayable on my gpu. Part of it may have been due to how broken the game was at launch, but I also knew the 1060 was showing its age.
edit: wasn't expecting to see so many mentions of Kiwami 2 lol
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